9.1

Felicity Jan Cooper is an Olympic Champion. Felicity is 10" (25cm) and the horse is 12" (30cm) high. She is made with mohair and cotton fabric and buzzard eye and a polymer clay nose. His companion, the horse Misty is hand made from mop top rayon and has been hand colored. They are both stuffed with wool and fully jointed. OOAK

Kay Cooper

Cooper Bears - Kelmscott, West Australia

9.2

Andy and Pandy are OOAK's in a series created from alpaca and are designed to sit although they both can stand when they are together. Each is 5" (13cm) tall. Andy is white/beige, Pandy is pink/beige, they have  ultra-suede paw pads and inner ears. Glass eyes are beige/brown and noses are stitched and waxed. Each wears a half of a Sterling Silver love heart pendant strung on a pink ribbon.

Kim Russell

Russell Bears - Ocean Reef, West Australia

9.3

Snow White is a jointed 12 1/2" mohair bear. Her seven dwarfs are each 6" tall. Fully jointed and made of different mohairs and wear different colored, hand made felt coats.

Candace Taylor

Candi Bears - Oregon, USA

9.4

Mad Hatter is made in alpaca and fully wooden jointed, Glass eyes, hand stitched nose and orange mohair dreadlocks. Handmade detailed outfit and he holds a wooden 'Rex' rabbit made in plush with wired ears and glass eyes.

March Hare is 12" and made of mohair with glass eyes set in white Fimo. Wired ears and large sculptured Fimo teeth. Completely jointed.
He holds a hand painted Cheshire cat china teapot, cup and saucer. He wears a handmade outfit. OOAK.

Queen of Hearts is a 12" white rabbit with wired ears. Made of plush with glass lidded eyes. Jointed which allows posing. Handmade heart motif waistcoat, Elizabethan ruffle collar and she holds a hand sculptured heart shaped clock and a paper scroll with 'Queen of hearts' verse. Sculptured cashmere paws with pink pads. Stuffed with polyester fibre weighted with encased sand in tummy.

Jacqui Wickenden

JCW BEARS & FURRY FREINDS - Basildon, United Kingdom

9.5

A Teddy for Bear is a two bear set. The larger  bear is named Shush and is 23" tall. Made of Tissavel faux fur with a mohair muzzle.  Her face has been needle felted, mohair has then been rooted into the felt for a natural look. She has taxidermy bear eyes, and eyelids that open and close. Four joints and a plastic armature that runs from her head to tail like a spine. The armature allows for easy movement.

Filled with a mixture of wool, polyester, soft pellets, and bbs. Her paw-pads are made of leather and her claws are sculpted of epoxy clay.  Shush’s little well loved friend is named Billy.  Billy is 8" tall and is made of mohair.  His paws are wool felt. Black glass an filled with

excelsior.  

Joanne Livingston

Desertmountainbear - Arizona, USA

9.6

Crockett is a Grizzly bear made from 1" Brown/ black tipped Alpaca. He stands 9" tall and is 16" in length and has black mini mohair paw-pads, with brown hand painted star-bust German glass eyes w/ ultra-suede eyelids. Has a jointed head and is stuffed with poly-fil. Crockett is outfitted with a hand made miniature leather saddle (all hand tooled), reigns, collar, and saddle bags. Canteen is also hand made from cowhide; He carries a saddle blanket & blanket stitched fleece bed roll & rope. Other accessories include a miniature powder horn and miniature (replica) flint-lock rifle. Davey is a 9" 5-way jointed bear made from 5/8" golden tan sparse mohair, mini mohair paw-pads and black German glass eyes. He is stuffed with poly-fil.  Davey’s outfit is all handmade; which includes fringed jacket and matching boots made from Cinnamon ultra-suede, leather belt, and beaded ‘possible’ bag (which holds his 'bear' gun powder, flint and cotton) Hat is a hand made 'raccoon skin' hat with tail made from mink fur. He also wears a necklace made from coyote claws and wooden beads. In his belt he carries a miniature knife with leather sheath and a miniature revolver. 

Ron & Kristy Northman

Captain Ron's Bears - Michigan, USA

9.7
Bear Making is Fun This little set consists of 2 little hand sewn mohair bears making a teddy bear. All the things are hand made including all the vignette pieces. OOAK A tiny bear is on the work bench and the table measures 4.5" (12cm) long.

Sharon Hale

shaz bears - Melbourne Victoria, Australia

9.8

Sally the seal and Puck the penguin are polar babies. Hand sewn from original designs and both made with the same Schulte alpaca. Sally is 7.5" long. Her face is needle felted German glass eyes and oil shaded features. Her whiskers have been waxed and claws are hand sculpted with polymer clay. Arms and tail are wired plus she has a body wiring which enables her to be posed. Stuffed with sheep wool and some encased white gravel for weight. Puck is 7.5" tall and his face is needle felted. German glass eyes and oil shaded features. His beak and his feet are hand sculpted with polymer clay then shaded. Wings are wired and he too has a body wiring. Stuffed with sheep wool. Hand embroidered a felt ball and fish.

Francesca Boretti

KALEideaSCOPE - Rheinfelden Argau, Switzerland

9.9

Hope and her cub - The 18” Mamma bear with her well-rounded, expectant tummy, is made of German mohair fabric and has leather footpads. She is fully articulated with five disc joints and Loc-line armature for posing. Her 8-inch Cub is made of two styles of German mohair fabric is also five-times jointed, however, he has wire armature and a contrasting inset face. His pads are sculpted wool felt. Both have glass eyes and are dressed in the same soft white cotton clothing, tailored specifically for their body proportions. 

Bev White

Happy Tymes Collectibles - Pennsylvania, USA

9.10
Oliver and Sugar are both 12"s tall and made with warm beige, dense antique curled German mohair, have wool felt paw and foot pads and e black German glass eyes. Embroidered noses on their scissor trimmed muzzles. 5-way disc jointed and filled with high-loft polyester and stone pellets. Oliver is wearing a checker wool country cap and vest.  Sugar has a lace ribbon and a pendant with her name on it around her neck.  OOAK

Erin Roy
Bears*n*Bling - Ontario, Canada

9.11

Phoenix (with red dress) and Tsama (with green dress) are 12" and 13.5" tall respectively. They wear cocktail head dresses. Bears are made from German felted mohair, Phoenix is peach and Tsama is pink. Both are 5-way jointed and with armature in arms so they can bend. Stuffed with poly and pellets in their feet. Glass eyes with needle felted eye shadows. Fancy colored wool felted hair. Phoenix and Tsama wear tulle ruffle dresses. Long necklace adorned Phoenix with black and star beads and Tsama wears a two-tone necklace of Czech bicolor crystals.   Each wears a hand made hat made with Czech crystals, English beads, Italian and French laces to compliment their outfits.

Dilys Pang
Dilys' Bear & Craft Designs - Macao, China

9.12
Bonia and Monia. They look very similar but are very different in nature. Monia does not like to stand while Bonia is very flexible. 9" tall.

Made from mohair and viscose. Stuffed with poly and granules. Glass eyes. 6-way jointed and heads are double jointed. Colorful polka-dot ribbon around their necks. Gently shaded. Basket is filled with apples and mushrooms are fashioned from papier-mache.

Irina Kudryashova
Voronezh, Russia

9.14
Trickie and Dante are 8" and 14" tall. Trickie is made from dark brown German mohair with shaded blonde mohair inserts and ginger cashmere paw pads and inner ears. Dante is made from long pile black German mohair with shaded blonde mohair inserts and half ginger cashmere paw pads. Both have English black glass eyes which have been accented with white and hand shaded. 5-way cotter pin jointed and stuffed with polyester and steel shot. Noses  and mouths have been embroidered using Perle cotton in black and ginger and noses  and the tips of their ears are hand shaded. OOAK

Lynn Bowie

Madabout Bears - Ayrshire, Scotland

9.15

Benjamin the teddy bear is made from hand dyed mohair and alpaca mohair. He is 15 1/2" tall. 5- way locknut jointed. He has armatures in his arms. Glass eyes with white and brown accents. Feet are ultra-suede with toes and brown accents. Watermelon and Barney the Ant are needle felted. He sports a bow tie and arms and legs move on ant.

Diana L. Watts
Dibears - Florida, USA

9.16

Babsy and her little Teddybear OOAK. Babsy 3.25" (8cm) and Teddybear 2" (4.5cm) tall. Babsy is hand-sewn using hand-dyed Smokey colored long pile while blonde and white long pile for her muzzle. Teddybear is hand-sewn from a nature colored medium pile.

Paw Pads are Ultra-suede and hand sculpted. Hand embroidered noses. Black German glass eyes with a hand-stitched black nose and mouth. Babsy is 5-way-jointed and filled with sheep-wool and steel pellets. Teddybear's head is jointed with cotter pin other limbs are thread jointed. Babsy wears a hand-sewn red coloured dress which is decorated with lingerie lace.

Holger and Claudia Schlue

Minkitzbären - Stuhr Niedersachsen, Germany

9.2

Andy and Pandy

9.3
Snow White & Seven Dwarfs

9.4
Mad Hatter & Queen of Hearts

9.5
A Teddy For Bear

9.6
Davey & Crockett

9.7
Bear Making is Fun

9.8
Sally & Puck

9.9
Hope & Her Cub

9.10
Oliver & Sugar

9.11
Tsama & Phoenix

9.12
Brothers Hedgehog

9.14
Trickie & Dante

9.15
Picnic Friends

9.16
Babsy & Her Teddy Bear

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